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G. aurantiaca var. Wyliei hails from the same locaHty as the 

 preceding variety, and was gathered at about the same time by 

 Mr. Wylie, with whose name I have pleasure in coupling this plant. 

 Both varieties are well worthy of culture and their introduction is 

 greatly to be hoped for. 



Gerbera elegans, Muschler in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. xlvi. 124, 

 f. 7 (1911). 



Crown of rootstock densely white-lanate. Leaves in tufts of 

 fours, ascending, ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, subacute, nar- 

 rowing gradually from about the middle into the longish sheathing 

 petiole, 3J-5 inches long, xV~"A ^^^^ broad, dark green and glabrous 

 above, greyish cobwebby beneath, the margin coarsely dentate, the 

 teeth obtuse or subacute, seven to ten on each leaf-side. Scape solitary 

 about 10 inches long, slender, glabrous below, densely pubescent above, 

 ebracteate. Involucral scales in few series, appressed, lanceolate or 

 triangular, very glabrous. Flower-head 1J-2 inches across, the ray- 

 florets ascending or spreading lustrous reddish-brown. Pappus 

 whitish-yellowish. 



I have not seen this species, but judging from the description it 

 is evidently a very acceptable plant. The author states that it 

 shows a relationship to the tropical African G. Lasiopus, but is differen- 

 tiated by the toothed leaves and the relatively greater glabridity 

 of the plant. G. elegans was detected by Bachmann (No. 1511) in 

 1887 and 1888 in the eastern coastal districts of Cape Colony, but 

 precisely where it is impossible to ascertain. 



Gerbera Lynchii/'' Dilmmer. 



Leaves tufted, five to seven, long-petioled, ascending or laxly spread- 

 ing ; petioles i J-2 inches long, chestnut -brown and glabrous above, paler 

 brown and spreading pilose below, ventrally grooved ; leaf-blade 

 small, elliptic or elliptic oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, obliquely 

 rounded or slightly cuneate at the base, |-if inch long, -J- J inch broad, 

 coriaceous, dark glossy green and glabrous above, white-felted below, 

 the midrib and its five to six pairs of lateral veins raised and brownish 

 at maturity ; margin obsoletely and distantly dentate. Scapes two, 

 slender, ebracteate, about 5-5J inches long, straggly white-pilose. 

 Involucral bracts 2-3-seriate, white cobwebby below, lanceolate, 

 acute, J-J inch long. Flower-head inch across, the ray-florets 

 spreading, purplish-pink (in a dried state), apically two- or three- 

 toothed ; disc-florets yellowish. Pappus creamy-white ; immature 

 achenes glabrescent. 



The specimen upon which the preceding description is founded 

 is preserved in the Kew Herbarium, and hails from the Clarkson area 



* G. Lynchii Diimmer. Species nova, G. parvae N. E. Brown, afifinis, sed 

 foliis eliipticis coriaceoribus supra atroviridibus, subtus creberrime albo-lanu- 

 ginosis, nervis lateralibus prominalis, pedunculis ebracteatis, capitulis majoribus, 

 floribus ligulatis purpureis differt. (Herb. L. Kitching, July 1880, Kew.) 



